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Exploring the Creation and Added Value of Manufacturing Control Systems for Software Factories

Authors:
Herwig Mannaert
Koen De Cock
Jeroen Faes

Keywords: Software Factories; Software Product Lines; Dev-Ops; Control Systems; Evolvability.

Abstract:
Software engineers have been attempting for many decades to produce or assemble software in a more industrial way. Such an approach is currently often associated with concepts like Software Product Lines and Software Factories. The monitoring, management, and control of such factories is mainly based on a methodology called DevOps. Though current DevOps environments are quite advanced and highly automated, they are based on many different technologies and tools. In this contribution, it is argued that more integrated software manufacturing control systems are needed, similar to control systems in traditional manufacturing. This paper presents a scope, overall architecture and prototype implementation of such an integrated software manufacturing control system. Moreover, several detailed scenarios are elaborated that can leverage such integrated control systems to optimize the operations, and improve both the quality and output of modern software factories.

Pages: 14 to 19

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2023

Publication date: November 13, 2023

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4235

ISBN: 978-1-68558-098-8

Location: Valencia, Spain

Dates: from November 13, 2023 to November 17, 2023